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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) The air.
(b) Christ.
(c) The windhover.
(d) The speaker.

2. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Metaphor.

3. What type of rhyme is seen in the poem's "A" lines?
(a) Slant.
(b) Eye.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Feminine.

4. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(d) Christina Rossetti.

5. What does the word "wimpling" literally mean in the context of line 4?
(a) Covering.
(b) Muffling.
(c) Like a nun's habit.
(d) Rippling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?

2. What does "shéer plód" mean (line 12)?

3. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?

4. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?

5. To whom is the poem dedicated?

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